The leader of the British government on Sunday announced plans to put authorities with the nation’s top organized crime agency on the so called “grooming gangs scandal,” in which more than 1,000 children were sexually abused over a 16-year period, according to multiple media reports. An inquiry in 2014 found that 1,400 children, primarily white girls from working-class families, in Northern England were subjected to sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013, Reuters reported. In the inquiry, officials reported that most of the perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage.